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What is used at the Solar One facility in California to concentrate the sun and sun rays?
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Heliostats, movable mirrors, were used to concentrate the sun's rays on a central tower of initially water, and later, salt.
Solar One and Solar Two were test sites, and neither operates anymore. The array of mirrors has been converted to be part of a gamma ray telescope (the mirrors now focus the brief and very weak flashes of light generated by cosmic gamma rays as they enter the earth's atmosphere onto a detector).
Another plant, Solar Tres, (later Gemasolar) was built in Spain, using the technology of Solar One and Solar Two, and three times bigger. Its molten salt storage means it can run during 15 hours of darkness. During the summer of 2013 the plant ran 24/7 for 36 consecutive days.
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What is used at the Solar One facility in California to concentrate the sun and rays?
Heliostats, movable mirrors, were used to concentrate the sun's rays on a central tower of initially water, and later, salt. Solar One and Solar Two were test sites, and neither operates anymore. The array of mirrors has been converted to be part of a gamma ray telescope (the mirrors now focus the brief and very weak flashes of light generated by cosmic gamma rays as they enter the earth's atmosphere onto a detector). Another plant, Solar Tres, (later Gemasolar) was built in Spain, using the technology of Solar One and Solar Two, and three times bigger. Its molten salt storage means it can run during 15 hours of darkness. During the summer of 2013 the plant ran 24/7 for 36 consecutive days.
What is used at the Solar One facility in California to concentrate the sun's rays?
Heliostats, movable mirrors, were used to concentrate the sun's rays on a central tower of initially water, and later, salt. Solar One and Solar Two were test sites, and neither operates anymore. The array of mirrors has been converted to be part of a gamma ray telescope (the mirrors now focus the brief and very weak flashes of light generated by cosmic gamma rays as they enter the earth's atmosphere onto a detector). Another plant, Solar Tres, (later Gemasolar) was built in Spain, using the technology of Solar One and Solar Two, and three times bigger. Its molten salt storage means it can run during 15 hours of darkness. During the summer of 2013 the plant ran 24/7 for 36 consecutive days.
What can solar rays also be called?
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They contain more solar energy!
What happens when sun hits solar panels?
the energy from the suns rays enters the solar panels
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solar flares appear as a dark spot
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there is always going to be wind and solar rays
How do use solar in a sentence?
"The solar rays are hotter on the equator than in the northern hemisphere."
